The Tiny Room

It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to update this blog.   Time flies when you’re busy moving and re-setting up household, studio, garden, etc. in a new location!  It isn’t all finished even now, but I thought I’d post a quick update for anyone who’s interested.  Gary’s been busy working on the shop and yard, so hasn’t been able to do any artwork in quite a while.  As for myself, I haven’t had a lot of time for creative work, either, but managed to produce a  dozen new jewelry designs in the past few months.  I’ve also just finished redesigning my website, which you can check out at   http://www.bonnievanhall.com.  If you look at the jewelry gallery, you’ll see more of my new jewelry designs  ( http://www.bonnievanhall.com/Jewelry/jewelrygallery.html ).

Here’s the latest colored pencil portrait from Isla, which won her a $100 award!

Jeffree Star

close-up

even closer

Here are just a couple of my new jewelry designs.  As I said, you can view all of them at the new website.

Beaded bracelet with Swarovski crystal

Beaded bracelet with Swarovski crystal

Beaded necklace, bracelet and earring set

Beaded necklace, bracelet and earring set

Hope you get to check out the rest of the website, and feel free to post any comments or feedback  here!  I’m planning on adding a guestbook and online store to the website, but haven’t finished with that yet.  Also putting the finishing touches on Gary’s website, which I’ll post a link to when it’s finished.  In the meantime, enjoy the spring weather!

We’ve been busy moving, painting, unpacking, etc., but wanted to post a quick update for now. Gary and I haven’t been able to work on much of anything besides the house for the past month! I have a few pictures to post, though, from various projects each of us started a while back.

First, here’s Gary’s finished bronze “Bubbles”.

Gary Persello bronze

Bubbles close up back

Bubbles close up front

Next is a pencil drawing Isla is hard at work on for her friend Jeremiah’s birthday present. It’s not quite finished yet, but you can get a pretty good idea of what it will look like.

And finally, my newest knit/beaded sweater combination. It only needs sleeves, but you can see I’m incorporating more beadwork into my knitwear than I did previously. Well, maybe you can’t tell because I haven’t gotten around to updating my website with my other sweaters yet! I need to finish unpacking, finish Gary’s website (it’s 3/4  done), redo my website, and then maybe finish this green man sweater. No, I’m not overworked…

Bonnie Van Hall new work "Guardian of the Green"

Guardian close up

Well, it looks like The Tiny Room will soon become either The Tinier Room, The Slightly Bigger Room, or at worst, The Non-Existent Room. We are in the process of looking for a new place to live, since the home we’ve been renting for 6 1/2 years has been foreclosed on. Whether we’ll have a room to live and work in at all is up for grabs at the moment. Needless to say, between this and designing and building Gary’s new website, we haven’t had any time to update our posts here. Gary Persello’s new fairy piece, “Bubbles”, is finally finished and in the gallery, and she is as beautiful and masterfully done as all his other bronzes. More on this in an upcoming post. For now, here are the newest of Isla’s drawings.  Some are tattoo sketches, and others are portraits she’s been working on. It’s amazing to see her rapid progress–just look at our previous post to see what I mean!

And now for the portraits (Bambi, get ready for your jaw to drop).

Gary is close to finishing up the final sculpting stage on “Bubbles”, but since we’re still not quite ready to post those photos, I thought this would be a good time to show a few of my 14 year old daughter Isla’s recent works. As an aspiring tattoo artist, Isla is currently working on honing her drawing skills. She has done several designs already, which I don’t have access to at this moment. But I did find several drawings she did a short while back, which I’ll post here.

And here are a couple of the beaded bracelets Isla recently both designed and beaded for some of her friends.

This next one is Isla’s version of “Cold Fire”.

This one was the first version Isla did of the four elements in Chinese characters.

And then she did a different version with an opaque background and silver-lined color highlights.

I’ll see if I can get Isla to give us a look at some of her tattoo designs soon!